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TIII :LONDON .101ittNA1.8. DAILY Extracts film the Yorning ,Paper.v i Jun. 18 1826 LMOR N TN& POST.] The Journal des Debedi justly remarks that instead of Constantine having personally re. lieved hi' subjects from the obligation of the oath which they had taken to him, it was Nicholas who ordered them not to obey his brother, but to , obey himself. Constantine's name is not to be inscribed on the list of Emperors. Though proclaimed and recognised, he is to be swept away from, the page of history, and the reign of Xicholas, is to date from the day of Alexander's death. 46 Then," says the same Paper, 64 Con stantine cannot have abdicated, for if he did not: reign, he could not abdicate. If he did not reign de facto for a moment, he still reigns and will r e ign a il his lif e de jurc."-1 This is certainly a dilemma from which there is no escape, save that which the sword and a park of artillery are always sure to procure for those who have, and who know how to employ them. his remarked in these Papers as an extraordi• nary circumstance, that the Russian Embassy in Paris still adhered to Constantine, and that " his name resounded on Saturday as Emperor in the Chapel of the Russian Ambassador, in the midst of sacred hymns, whilst those who Invoked it on the banks or the Newt!, were pulverised by the artillery of Nicholas." It would appear from this that the Russian Ambassador himself did not conceive that Nicholas was in full and secure possession of the throne. [NEW TIMES.) We last night received, by Express, the Male of Monday, with the other journals of the pre ceding day. They add little to our knowledge of the faces respecting Russia, but that little is of a favourable kind. It seems indisputable that Constantine 'has made all the troops at Warsaw swear allegiance to, the Emperor Nicholas. As to the rumours circulated in Paris 'and London that Nicholas has been assassinated, the EmpreaS Elizabeth, the widow of Alexander, is pregnant, add that a revolutionary party, hostile alike to both the Imperial Brot hers, has shown itself in St. Petershorgh, we dismiss them, as' resting on Ito authority, and deserving of no credit. With respect to 'the reasonings of those. French and English journalists, whose object is to excite alarm, the first remark that we have to make is, that they betray their motive too clearly not to put us on'our guard against their sophistry; and, in the next place, they are clearly destitute of any real information as to the facts on which they ground their arguments. 46 In point of law," (says the Journal des Debuts), 44 a citizen cannot, at his pleasure, lay down the magistracy with which lee, is invested, nor can a Prince abdicate, the crown which the legitimate Sovereign still wears." We are not aware ofany.such principle as the latter, nor can it: be deduced by analogy from the former, the two cases being essentially different. flow. many Princes,in the various trea. ties of Europe, have not renounced thrones which they or their descendants might otherwise have been Called to occupy ? now many instances of anch,renunciation has not the Rouse of Boar bon itself furnished? 4 4 The ancient institution of hereditary succession," continues the Prenth Journalist, 44 exists for the good of nations!" Doubtless it doei ; and for the good of nations, it is not a blind, undistingoishing principle., but OHO Susceptible of adaptation to persons, and events, and eireurn4atices. Nobody has ever pretended that a Monarch on the throne could not abdicate his SoVereignty, and it is quite a gratuitous . assumption that a Prince HOU in sac cession cannot make a renunciation of his rights in expectancy. True it is that such an act may be open to the possibility of a subsequent alle gation that it was done nosier duress ; but If it was not really so done, it is most assuredly valid. Now Constantine not only does not pretend that his renunciation in I W 22 was involnntary, but lie repeats it, and insists on it with extreme earnest ungii 4t,preseut. [stomata nEuAt.n.j. There was, thionebout yesterdermorning, an evident inclination for ti decline in ell the British Fnitth679Consols, +0111611.1n the early pert of.. the' daravtiterdoito.at fii*,.tietlined tb Bib and Ex chequer Bilic were donext a di/wawa of from to 4s; The 13kri4 ) hoWever, not satisfied with thia reduction in their favour, started a report of the death of the new Emperor of Russia, choiav, which was represented to have taken place . in three separate' ways—first, he had been' shot brthe troops ; secondly, that he had his throateat by some of his confidants ; and thirdly, that : . he had destroyed ' himself with 1119 own It is Heedless to add, that the report ob tained 'but little belief ; nevertheless it tended to damp - the'Market, and Consols -went down to . , 811 t, and after much struggling dosed at 841, with 'Exchequer Bills and India Bonds at about the Same prices as during the preceding part oil the-ditY. That such rumours sis these should be set'afitiat :it not to: be wandered ut, when it is reeollecteiF that the Conte! Account' closes this day(Wedttesday)„ The Account, hdwever, con , tram to genttrul expectation, it is said, will turn out to he a heady hull Account. There was a general decilne the Foreign Seetiritles after the reporteil death of the Russian Autocratiwei propagated,; and at the close of the Market the. Foreign Net:brides bore a very unfavourable , ap;`! petranCe. 'The various Shares and -Schemes all bora prices nominally tower ttn Monday, but no'real bargaies were effected inlay of them. [TUF TIMES.] The intended sale of Indigo - yesterday by the India Company exhibited a scene very curious and unprecedented ; and perhaps we might add, not easily to be explained upo , n any general whicit govern commercial markets. It, appears from statements made at this meeting, as well. as irOtri what had trantwired previously, thitt thR greater poi lion of ,those , individuals, both In town sod country, who carry On the indigo intae, bmi concurred in solicitations to the 'Com pony to postpone the 4uarterty sale appointed to take place yesterday. The Company refus ed to comply. The sale came on. Two thou sand five hundred chests of indigo were with. drawn from the market, chiefly by three great houses. Of three thousand seven hundred chests which remained, seven hundred only belonged to the Company ; and on the ap. pointed moment of the sale commencing, which was but a quarter of an hour before the regular time of closing, not a single purchaser was to be found ! To us, who are not in the secrets of the trade, the curious part of all this appears to have been, the apparent unanimity (with one sale exception) of buyers and sellers, in their desire to postpone the sale. We have on one side seve ral extensive holders of indigo, and on the other Mr. Christie, who, if we may judge from his argu 'ments, represented a class of intending pur chasers, equally urgent with the Chairman of the meeting to adjourn the market to some period when trade should have recovered from its ex isting depression. The scarcity, therefore, of money, and the precarious condition of credit, were the arguments for this departure from the regular proceedings of the Company ; and for one division of the parties interested—that is to say, for those who had indigo to sell—there could not be more reasonable grounds on which to rest their proposal. No sensible snun will, if he can avoid it, part with his property when the times are bad. But again, every man who wishes to purchase will choose a moment of general, though transient difficulty, and of reduced value, ' for effecting it. We see, however, but a solitary instance of the operation of this rule in the trans.. actions of yesterday. A Mr. Fosse!, a dyer, stated that he had come up from Frome to buy, and would be disappointed, as would his country friends, by a postponement of the day's business. This we can understand, though not the inacti vity of the , same person when the goods which he wanted were offered afterwards, and he wbuld not purchase. EMOUNI NG CIIRONICLt.] We have received another letter from our cor. respondent T. 13. in support of the existing Corn Laws•--We are ready to admit to our corre• spondent, that a change in our Corn Laws would necessarily be productive of great inconvenience to the existing race of agriculturists. "That the whole agricultural tenantry of the kingdom would be rendered insolvent by such a measure," us he contends they would, we deem the language of exaggeration. Four fifths nearly of the land of England are held at will, and here, as far as rent is cencerned, there would not be much difficulty. The chief difficulty would be in the case of lands held on lease, end in the decrease occasioned ny reduced prices in the amount of a tenant's assets, while his debts would remain at their former amount. We do not wish to dissemble the amount of evil which so important a change in the system of this country would occasion, and nothing but a thorough conviction of the still greater evil we have to apprehend from an ad. herenee to the existing Corn Laws, would induce us to recommend any measure affecting the for tunes of a large body of the community. While we say this, however, we protest against the idea that a free trade in grain would be attended with so very extensive a fall in price as our agricul turists suppose. The prices here and in the porta of the Continent could not, it is true, vary much more than the charge of conveyance from the One side of the water to the other. But this equalization would be produced by raising the price abroad, as well as by lowering the price here. That it would conduce greatly to the prosperity of the country—that the price of food, which enters for so much into the price of labour, should not differ materially here from the price on the Continent, cannot be doubted. So long as the difference is so great as at present, there is the greatest inducement to remove capital from this country to the Continent, and indeed the progress made of late years abroad, in many branches of industry, in which we excel, has by all accounts been very great. We are literally giving a pre mium to promote the prosperity of the manufac titres of our neighbours at the expellee of our Own. rnitillsn PRESS.] Within the last thirty years great revolutions have taken place in the opinions of men on mat ters of government, legislation, finance, and— perhaps beyond all others—on the philosophy of commerce. In the concerns of trade, in a great ingdom like this, it is not. those principles which k are speculatively best that are always the safest or the most salutary in their application. The doctrine which, on the theories of the political economist, approve themselves to our reason, may in practice produce results the very reverse of what was expected from them. The reason of this is, that these doctrines are not adapted to the state of things to which they are applied. It is not at all difficult, for instance, if we look only on one side of the subject, to demonstrate the ad. vantages that would accrue from removing all re strictions on the Tradein Corn ; that bread would be cheaper must be admitted, but that those who subsist on the wages of labour would be bent, fited in proportion to the fall in price, is not quite so clear. That they would be thus bene fited is, we know, a fact taken for granted ; but it does not, on that account, the less require to be proved. The subject is surrounded with Mi. culties. 44 Let the artisans," says the modern Ticonornist," be permitted to purchase their food in the cheapest market." The proposition is so equitable in itself, that to demur to it appears quite unreasonable. But should the quantity of corn imported froin abroad reduce the price below what will remunerate the cost of produc-, flan to the English farmer, the result will be, that he must cease to grow coi', as he cannot be expected to employ Isis labour and capital in pro ducing a commodity which yields no compensa- I don. 'When the pursuits of agriculture cease to be as lucrative as other employments they will he abandoned; the soil must be cultivated with an adequate return of profit or it will cease to be cultivated at all. Mr. Ricardo, with a philosophic indifference that, to us, is quite unaccountable, anticipates this result, and proceeds in a tone of perfect apathy to smooth the way to it. (4 The best policy of the State," says he, " would be to lay a tax, decreasing in amount from time to time, on the importation of foreign corn, in order to afford the home-grower an opportunity to with draw his capital gradually 4rom the land." God forbid that our statesmen should ever lend them selves to such a scheme of policy as this. What I compel the proprietors and tenants of the soil gradually to withdraw their capital from its cultivation !•-• Is it in this manner we are to prepare the way to prosperity under the new system ? Instead of praying heaven in its dispense lions to " speed the plough," are we to force the husbandman to withdraw his hand from it? Is England then—with all her wealth, her pride, and her independence—to owe her very mainte nance to foreigners, and to do this, not from ne cessity, but from choice, and with her eyes open ? Are we, hereafter, to be indebted for our subsist ence, not to the bounty of Providence, but to the bounty of Poland and of Prussia ? [Till; PUBLIC LEDGER.] We have received several sets of German Pa pers, with the Paris Papers of Sunday ; but they do not enable us to throw any additional light upon the extraordinary proceedings that have just taken place in Russia. The latter abound in amplifications and comments ; but as they contain nothing either striking or new, we pass them over in silence. To give, however, a sample of the public feeling in this country, with respect to the tendency of those proceedings, we shall here notice two reports, which were very prevalent yesterday In the City. According to one, an Express had arrived with intelligence of the assassination of the Em peror Nicolas ; and if we are to believe the other, the army stationed in the South has de clared in favour of Constantine. Though these ru mours could not be traced to any source en titled to the slightest credit, yet they are inte resting, as they show the very slight degree of confidence that attaches to those semi-official statements, in which it is said that the Re volution of the Russian Throne has been effected, in a manner comparatively harmless. In the mean time, we know nothing of Constantine, since the death of his brother, but what we have gleaned from the official documents that have been published in the Petersburgh Gazette. The Warsaw Gazette, which is clearly under his sole and entire direction, has not as yet either in serted these important records, or published any thing else, that could enable us to obtain even a glympse, as to his feelings and designs. If this ad. herence to the engagement, by which he is excluded from the throne, was as reckless as it is commonly represented, he would show it by his impatience to (nuke his sentiments known through that chan nel over which he has an absolute controul. That channel, instead of exhibiting extraordinary faci lity and freedom of communication, as would be the case, if the Cesarowitsch were us determined to renounce his birthright as he is represented, seems to present extraordinary obstructions ; for nothing has transpired us yet through this medium, that could throw the least light upon the singular and unexpected circumstances in which the Russian empire is all titmice placed. Connected with the two former, was another rumour, according to which Count Villele had tendered his resignation: We say that the one rumour was connected with the others ; for there had not been a hint, or a remote indication of a change in the French Cabinet, before the re. volution, which has just occurred in the Russian Court. That revolution has so completely shaken the European system, that in order to prevent it from falling to pieces, new props, both as regard men and measures will, in all probability, be universally set up. From the nature of these props, it wiji not be very difficult to anticipate the success of the experiment ; and, in the in terval, we would caution the Public to be on their guard with respect to any rumours that may be put forth on the subject. If the change is likely to be favourable to the great interests of mankind, scandalous anecdotes of a contrary tendency will be industriously pushed into circu. lation, with► all the appearance of candour and authenticity. For our own parts, we do not at tach much credit to the report of Villele's nation ; but should it be verified, we are con vinced that the cause of good government in France would suffer nothing in consequence. E—n 14— r , whilst travelling on a coach, hap. petted to pass a spot where he had ►nade some sketches ; and he remarked to his companion, a brother artist, that he had once " pai►►ted all those hedges." The coachman, who had listened to the conversation of his passengers, and thought that they were hoaNing him, upon hearing this observation, remarked «ith that freedom which is peculiar to his profession, 44 Then I think you must have used a d—d sight of paint." BEGGiNG POLL QUARTEIti.—At the battle of Spires the French had orders to give no quarter. A German officer failing into the hands of a French soldier, begged hard for his life. 64 Sir," said the Frenchman, " you may ask of me any other favour you please, hut ns for your life it is impossible for me to grant it." A Bill, sent for the Royal approbation from the Irish Parliament, in 1784, intending to limit the privilege of franking, a clause stated," That should any Member be unable to write, he might authorize another person to frank for him, pro. vided that on the back of the letter so franked the Member gives a certificate under his own hand, of his inability to write." PARLIAMENTAUT BILLS.-1111 a Bill for pulling down the old Newgate of Dublin, and rebuilding it in the tame spot, it was enacted, that to pre. vent unnecessary expellee, the prisoners should remain in the old Goal till the new one was finished. CHILI> Scittnen.---A child, on of n person named Eddy: who resides near Itedruth, was scalded to death last week, under the following eirctungtanc " : * -- Tho mother, who had beets pre. poring the fatally (Honer, had set the pot off the fire, and was attendiog to BOrile other matters, when the child went to the vessel, and by some means overturned it, when the boiling liquor flashed over him, by thigh he was so dreadfully scalded, as to cause his death in a few hours. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, J Ax.l7. THE MARQUIS or HERTFORD V. THE EARL OF DAR LINGTON. Mr. ROUPELL moved for an injunction to restrain the defendant, his workmen, or agents, from digging any pit or shaft, or making any passage or adit ulider certain pre rises in the borough of Camelford, in the county ofCornwall, and from exploding gunpowder under or near the same premises. The bill stated that the Marquis of Hertford had purchased the re maining term in a lease of the premises respecting which the injunction was prayed, and which at the time of granting the lease consisted of a very ancient house and a bullock-shed adjoining, situate in the centre of the borough of Camel ford. The house and the bullock-shed having become very much decayed, the Marquis, upon having the assignment of the lease made over to him, erected three new tenaments on the site of th e bullock-shed, and had the old house repair. ed and improved by the addition of a story. Lord Darling. ton was entitled to the fee of the premises in question, and to the benefit of a clause in the original lease, reserving to him the right of digging or trying for mines under the same. He had lately thought fit to avail himself of this right, and under the preten ce o f searc hi ng f or m i nes, h e had sunk a shaft within a few miles of the premises, and carried an adit directly under the houses, in which he had caused gunpowder to be exploded. The consequence was, that the new buildings had been wholly destroyed, and the other was in great danger of being thrown down, if this practice should be persisted in.-- Affidavits were filed in support of the bill, which stated that there was no ground for supposing that any ore or mineral was to be found on the premises, and that the blasting whi c h h a d taken place wa s b e li eve d to have been done solely for the pur pose of destroying the buildings. The VICE-CHANCELLOR doubted whether the Court had jurisdiction ; but as the affidavits were positive, he would grant the injunction as prayed for, and the question ofjmisdic tion might be argued when it was moved to dissolve the injunc tion. This transaction is immediately connected with the disputed question of the patronage of the borough of Camelford. Each of the houses confers a right of voting on the inhabitants. COURT OP KING'S BENCE', .Ti.AI 17. DOE, ON DEMISE OF THE BISHOP Or LONDON, V. MARSHALL. This was an action of ejectment, to recover possession of cer tain strips of land in the parish of Ilornsey, claimed by the Bishop of London as lord of the manor. According to the evidence adduced on behalf of the plaintiff; it appeared that Mr. Marshall, the defendant, was a carpenter, holding copy. hold premises of the manor, which his father had enjoyed be fore him • and that for a b out 50 years t h e occup i er of these premises itad used these strips to place timber on, and in one of them had used a saw-pit. One of these strips was in front of the house, but extended beyond it ; the other was on the opposite side of the road, adjoining the church-yard. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, on the part of the plaintiff, urged that these strips were originally part of the waste, and that the user was merely by indulgence, which could convey no title. Mr. SCARLETT, for the defendant, strongly contended that the occupation was evidence of title; that., unless the road was made through waste land, the vacant spaces at its sides would belong, not to, the lord, but to the freeholder or copyholder ; and that if such 'user were not' received as a proof of right, half the titles in the kingdom might be unsettled. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE left the jury to decide on the evidence whether these strips were, from time immemorial, part of the copyhold which the defendant held ; if they were, lie was entitled to a verdict ; if nnt, there was no proof of any conduct on the part of the lord which could give him a right to the possession. In country places it was often observable that a carpenter or wheelwright placed his timber on the waste, and sawed it out in strips of land adjoining the road; and if by such acts he could obtain a title, the proprietor would be dis couraged from exercising indulgence which was no present in jury to them, but which they would not be expected to con tinue, if it was to become evidence against them of an absolute right to the soil in the party using it. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff'. OLD BAILBY SESSIONS, JAN. 17. This day the several prisoners against whom bills were thrown ou t by the G ran d J ury were all called up and discharged. Francio James illgaia and Eliza Baker, a young woman of genteel appearance fur advanced in pregnancy, were put to the bar on a charge of conspiracy to defraud, &c., by false repre sentations, the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. On Saturday they were also arraigned capitally .on severd charges of forging certain dividend. warrants, &c., with intent to defraud the Bank of England, and other Individuals, named in the indictment. To which charge theypleaded " Not guilty," and prayed the Court on affidavit* to postpone the trial for felony WI next sessions, on the ground of being unprepared to' proceed to trial, the defendant Rigaud alleging, that although hills had been found against him, yet that he had never been examined before a Magistrate. The Coons consented to postpone the trial for felony, and ordered the trials for misdemeanour to be fixed for this day. The prisoners were accordingly placed at the bar, and the lady excited much interest by her delicate situation. She was very ill, and the Court indulged her. with a chair. 'ere were three other prisoners implicated in the same charge of misdemeanour. One of them, a woman named Meek, was so ill in the House of Correction, that she was unable to attend to take her trial ; and Mr. Vickery, the Governor, made affidavit that it was considered unsafe to remove her. The other persons were a Mr. Collins we believe), who was out on bail, and remained in the body of the Court, and a AIL That, who was removed from the House of Correction and placed at the bar. Ile now applied to the Court to have his trial post. ported till next sessions, saying that it had been arranged with Mr. Freshfield, the Solicitor for the Bank of England, to that effect. Mr. Rigaud also applied to have his trial for the mistlemea nour postponed on nearly similar representations, as did also Eliza Mter, on account of her illness. The RECoRDER said that none of the reasons alleged were sufficient to induce the Court to accede to their request, and the trials must now proceed, unless more satisfactory reasons were given. A consultation here took place between the Counsel for the respective parties, and it was ultimately consented to by Mr. Freelefield to : postpone the trial till next sessions. The Reconomt then told the prisoners that they had to thank the Bank of England entirely for this indulgence. Mr. Itigaud now asked the Court for liberty to look at his papers for ten minutes : they had been taken out of his house Sussex, and though he had before applied for a sight of them, ' it was refused by Mr. Preshfield. Mr. Freshfield made no answer to this, but smiled. The ItEeoftnEn said the Court had no power to grant the request. Its compliance remained entirely with the prosecu tors ; and they, no doubt, would do what was right. Mr. Rigeed th en as k ed to be allowed copies of' his papers. The RECORDER said he had no power to make any such order. Ile must ask the prosecutors, who had already shown him so much candour. But he understood that copies had been given. Mr. Rigaud said there had not been any copies given —only the copy of one insignificant paper. The prisoners were then removed from the bar, the session s terminated, and the Lond on Jury were discharg e d. The Court was then adjourned till the afternoon, when the prisoners convicted during the session were brought up to re ceive sentence. The It Econottt passed seiitenee of Death on the following unfortunate prisoners :--Williain Williams, for feloniously being at large; James Smith and James Hawkins, for coin ing • D. Jones, for burglary ; William Burke, for robbery ;. Groves, otherwise Cufftree Bookeri and John pox_ field, for stealing goods in a d we lli ng -h ouse; Wi lliam Hunt, for burglary ; .l a m es B arnet, for robbing on the King's high , way; James Dolphin and Edmund Walker, for stealing goods in a dwelling-house; James Hawkins, for returning from transportation ; William Nicholson, for' burglary ; I.dward Cockerel!, fo r f orgery; Ann Conroy , John Meyeire Shaw, and Charles Pratt, for stealing goods in a dwelling-house; Joseph Henley, George Wright, and William Kaye, for burglary ; and Abraham Davis, for returning front transportation. The last prisoner said that his fife had been sworn away by I a turnkey, while two others who had been in, Newgate at the same period stated that they had never seen hint before ; in fact, he had never been at the Old Bailey before, and his name was not Abraham Davis, but Henry Williams. (It appeared at the trial that be Was not in the department of the two turnkeys alluded - to.) The Itkcounun told him that what be alleged way no cause why judgment should be stayed. -The prisoners Smith and HaWkins (fur coining), being gen_ vieted of treason, were senteneed to he taken froth the gaol ore a hurdle to the place Of execution. Transported for life.—Mary Harris. 'transported for: 14 years.—William! Ferrer,- George!Angel Lowe, Catherine Cochrane, Daniel Deane (for stealing types), James Stevens, and Frend. 'Transported for seven years.—William King, James King, 'William Aldis, Thomea Abrown Johnson, Mary I Prior, William Wood, George Williams, John Totnilnfo William Smith, Thomas Dimsdale John Brice, Thomas Hewitt, Daniel S u lli van , Cornelius emelly, Benjamin Bond, Thomas Lake, Rich a rd Itr es t, J o h n Brindley, Eliza Jarties, Samuel Park, Thomas Sadler, Henry Stone, Joseph Phi Philip Warren, Peter Shies, Jeremiah Sullivan, Samuel. Jones, George Beam, Charles Tuppen, Michael Cochrane, William Brook, .Margaret Ash, Samuel Waters, Emma True. I man, Moses Owen, Robert Jackson, and Richard Turpin. Sarah Buchannan and Ellen Murray were sentenced to tad years', and Richard James Harris to one year's imprisonment, and hard labour in the House of Correction. Several other prisoners were sentenced to various terths' Of imprisonment from six months to seven days in the House of Correction, and Newgate. O ne p r i soner , J ames H arr i s , will ordered to be publicly whipped far 100 yards near the prose cutor's brick-fields, at Hackney, and then to two months' hard labour in the House of Correction. The Sessions were then• ad. journed till the 16th of February. POLICE INTELLIG ENCE. MANSION -HOUSE. Yesterday a constable brought up a pauper before the Lonn 31AY011, under circumstances which are likely to cress some confusion in the several parishes of the Metropolis,— The constable stated that he found the pauper, who is an Irishman, on London Bridge, and thought himself bound to take him into custody, for the purpose of dell vering him to a c o nst a bl e of Middlesex, in order that he might be passed on to his native place. The city constable, however, was disappointed in his expectation of thus ge tting.rid of the Irishman, the Middlesex officer having acted upon the opinion of the :Magistrates of the county, that the Act of 17 Geo. U. has been altogether repealed by the new Acts on the subject of the disposal ofiagrants, and that, therefore the pass master's office is at an end. Such is the dread felt by the Irish , poor who have been long from their country to return thither, that there is no effort they would not be capable of making to avoid such an extremity, and Instances have been disccivered where they have preferred the alternative of being half starved and half naked in England, to running the hazard of being sent home. The Lone MAyoa directed the City Solicitor to make inquiry into the legal merits of the case, and report to the Court of Aldermen, that measures may be taken immediately. BOW-STREET. Yesterday the celebrated Dick Bo:errs, of duffing notoriety, was charged with committing a (rand on an Italian gentleman, named Carminati, under the following circumstances :—Signor Carminati was, some days since, walking along Regent-street, when he was accosted by the gallant Dick. He told him that he had got some of the finest gloves manufactured in England for sale, at only a shilling a pair. The reason of his being able to sell them so far below their real value was, that they were contraband. After considerable importunity, the Italian accom panied him to a neighbouring public-house. The merchant-pro duced several pairs of gloves, and a quantity of what he called ' French cambric, and Irish linen. The former was worth guinea a yard, but he would sell it 107 eight shillings ; the lat. ter was worth six shillings a yard, but ha would sell it for far, shillings. He agreed to p urc h ase art i c l es to t h e amount o f 61,, In a few days after the cambric was found to be in fact worth 7d. a yard, and the linen of much the same value. Complaint' was made at Bow-street, and Mr. Richard Bowers taken into custody. In his defence he said, that the complainant had 00' cause to complain, for he had only been toiled in endeavouring to commit an illegal act. The worthy Magistrate did not, how ever, coincide with his view of the case, and, therefore, remanded hun till Thursday for further examination. QUEEN-SQUARE. COMMITMENT OF LADY BARRYMORE.—ThiS unfortu nate and infatuated woman, who has often been before the town, was yesterday brought before Mr. GREGO al E and Mr.lVirlTty the sitting Magistrates, in the custody of B oyce . — Ti mo thy Pierce, landlord of th e Angel, in Tothill-street, Westminster, said that the prisoner came into his house, about a quarter past six o'clock that morning, when she observed that she had not visited him for some time (Mary Ann Pearce, for such is the prisoner's proper name, had b e en lib erate d from con fi nement on Monday only) ope and demanded some liquor, which he retlised 0 4 account of her being then inebriated. She immediately threw a tumbler at hint, and knocked him upon the head, threateningto kill him ; she also next endeavoured to empty the bar tub over hint, and swore that she would destroy all his furniture. Ladp Barrymore here so far forgot her presumed rank as to give her prosecutor a briskish cut upon his head, and threatened " as she was a Lady, to do for him" whenever she could get her liberty. Mr. GREGOR E now asked Pierce if he meant to pro. , secute, as otherwise the must be discharged, and was likely to annoy him again much more. Mr. Pierce, after some besiitt tion, at length consented to become the prosecutor in this case, and was thereupon bound over in the sum of M. Lady Barry. more was then taken to Tothillfidds Prison. IS'r OaCESTEIt ..ITY Santo these SeS' sions, B. Johnson, Esq. Town Clerk, in his charge to the Grim] Jury, expressed the high satisfaction he felt in having to inform them that there was not a single prisoner for trial for felony ; a circumstance which had not before occurred during a period exceeding twenty years. CoNSIDER ATE TIIIE.vEs.—A few days Since, M Mr. I.:Lot:Bros, of Kingsland-green, was passing' through the Strand, he was hustled by a gang of thieves, and immediately missed his pocket" hook, which contained VII. in notes, and several unaccepted and otherwise unnegotiahle hills. — The latter were the next day returned al a parcel to Mr. L.'s residence in their original eavrOopp. coult,SP: EXCII.-SM;E, Jan. 17. instei dam Pi RF. C. Ditto, at Sight Itotteidain 9 1.2 Antwerp 12 9 Allows .............................. :17 4 ti th -5 „ I' Ditto is. Ilmirileanx, ditto ...... *5 as .............. Fulfil, t lie 7 0 Petri slillrgh Vienna Trieste.. Madrid Cadiz ililbna ilarctlhnis n Genoa . It 4 v. 1.1. i -- 11alta alernin 130 per Os. purtu ItioJanciro 4bi . Buenos "lyres 434 Dublin .... 9j ...... qj C,iit .. 155 Ex . Monet . 1 0 .17 10 17 •• • •it;il Effective • '34 Eifret ive shun Utll.,r,tos. Portugal (101,i_iti (:uni 1 .0 0 0 fir Foreign Gold, iu 112 rs 3 17 New Dunlilnons •• .. 0 0 0 New I)rillnr4 . 0 0 Silver St:ititiaril in Bars. OO 0 ___ -7 -- BIRTHS, inst., the lady of NValter Stevenson Davidsor At Branch.hill Lodge, Hampstead, on Monday, tho 1 6( th i>avidaun, -s.? math), ()f it soli. On the nth inst., at Gifford's•hall, Stoke, neailll4Y•landir nandso am. Suffolk, the lady of Patrick Power, Esq of a On Wednesday, the 11th inst , the. lady . of Alesander De, isser, Esq., surgeon, 40, Judd-st.reei, Bruuswlalt-square, of As Eso•or Inc)_ 80t). John Parton, Esq., AIARRIED. On Thursday last, at llasle►nere. Mr. Henry Edwards, of Hutton garden, surgeon, to Janc, second daughter of the late At Stockholm, on the 29th Vary Anne, youngest daughter of the hue Baron de Ka►itznw, to Baron Shemmel. penninch Vander 0 r ) ed' Ilftirs at that Court rPe Dutch ( iarg . of Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. On t h e 7th inst., Robert; he } infant son, and on the llth inst., Bailie), the fourth son , of John Levien, Esq., of :Man chestenstreet. At her house at Blackheath, on the Litt A"' widow of the late Joseph Kirkup, of flarpur-street. O Mina* last, Jane, the wife of James Rice, .Esq., of PA)- anti-street anti Putney-heath. At Gty's-clifr, Bertie Bertie Greatheed, Printed and Published for the Pitornzwrons, at the Susi OrPtvg, No. flit, strand, by J. kt. itti TJA Itil.